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This is a deliberately polemical intervention into the structure/agency debate in the social sciences. It argues that central concepts in this debate - such as 'society' and the 'individual' - have been widely misconceived, and that progress in the social sciences will only occur if the real nature of the social world is respected. -- .

This book provides the first comprehensive evaluation of Britain's food laws from the 1860s to 1930s and the first analysis of the Victorian anti-adulteration legislation for 25 years. -- .

Dwells on the French defeat of 1870 and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris. By looking at the history of the body and medicine, this book considers how the French people mobilised for the war effort and how their ultimate defeat had cultural and social consequences which led to the fin-de-siecle spirit.

Ideas about marriage, gender and the family were central to political debate in late Stuart England. This book shows how political argument became an arena in which the proper relations between men and women, parents and children, public and private were defined and contested.

Offers an engagement with a rethinking of Magritte's art from a position informed by contemporary developments in art theory. This title analyses Magritte's art through employing a range of literary and philosophical/cultural theoretical frameworks. It explores how Magritte's art challenges conventional notions of originality and canonicity.

EU development cooperation policy has ceased to be unique and perhaps has become more symbolic than substantive. This book analyses the external and internal influencing factors which have contributed to the drastic changes to this policy. -- .

This book draws on the ideas of a wide range of political thinkers, including Kant, Hegel, Marx, Weber and Arendt, to explore the ideas, meaning and history of civil society. -- .

This guide to the correct pronunciation of German for native speakers of English begins with an introduction to the problems of modern German pronunciation and the concepts of phonetics. It then examines each aspect of pronunciation in turn and the conversational pronunciation of German.

This collection of essays exposes how meaning has been produced around the Great Exhibition. Critics and historians of art, culture, design and literature have been brought together to examine the objects, the images, the documents and the fictions of 1851. -- .

A study of Elizabeth Gaskell's early life up to her marriage in 1832. It analyses three travel journals by her Knutsford cousins which prove that she grew up in a literary milieu.

Presents a 'Flaneur's eye view' of Parisian life in the first half of the nineteenth century: dress, cafes and restaurants, but also shops and passages, the omnibus, bals publics and carnival. This book provides general conclusions about the private and public spheres in 'le vieux Paris'.

A critical edition of Carlos Fuentes' 1962 novel, Aura, accompanied by an introduction and notes on the text. -- .

Celebrates the life and work of Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest modern poet and dramatist. -- .

A groundbreaking work which produces many insights into this early masterpiece -- .

'Moving through modernity' offersthe first full-length account of modernism from the perspective of a criticalliterary geography, and in stimulating new readings of E.M. Forster, Imagism,James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Rhys, this book demonstrates how spaceand geography were also central concerns for modernists. -- .

Now available in paperback, this volume blends normative political theory with European integration, and develops an original theoretical framework for European Union citizenship, identity and immigration as well as a set of policy proposals for institutional reform. -- .

This book looks at the development of governance analysis in new conceptions of political and democratic communication. -- .

Investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and in the ways in which the poor made ends meet. This book attempts to supply the English 'economy of makeshifts' with an empirical basis and to advance the concept of makeshifts from a vague but convenient label to a more precise yet inclusive definition.

This book provides a detailed analysis of the political thought of the Liberals and Liberal Democrats since 1945. The contributors include both academic experts and senior Liberal Democrat MPs and will therefore appeal to students and the general enthusiast alike. -- .

This study explores a range of photographic images made during the 1910 revolution. Repeatedly reproduced across a range of media in the aftermath of the conflict, the analysis of this select handful of photographs brings to light compelling stories about cultural memory and identity in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. -- .

Studying the demise of the British Empire after World War II from a cultural perspective rather than a political or economic one, this text argues that the social and cultural impact of decolonisation had as significant an effect on the imperial centre as on the colonial periphery.

A systematic study of the early performance of New Labour in power. Each chapter examines New Labour's initial comments, charts opening policy moves, and traces policy trajectories in each major department of state.

This book, the first full-length study of British civilians' behaviour in air raids during the Second World War, challenges a common image of civilians as passive shelterers during air raids. -- .

A new in paperback edition of this first play by John Marston to be performed by the revived Paul's Company in 1599. Fully annotated with critical introduction and full commentary. -- .

This book tells the story of the arrival of Dolby onto the film scene in the early 70s, and its profound impact on Hollywood filmmakers and audiences worldwide. -- .

An exciting and provocative collection of essays which registers the changes to 'Englishness' since the 1950s, 'The revisions of Englishness' explores how conventional ideas of 'Englishness' have been re-imagined in post-war fiction, poetry and film. -- .

An anthology of previously unpublished and hard-to-find poetic material from early modern women who wrote in manuscript form. It features a broad and useful introduction examining the phenomenon of manuscript writing, and biographical notes preface the work of each author -- .

This book is a comprehensive introductory guide to late medieval gentry culture, including chapters on gentility, chivalry, politics, education and recreation, literacy, literature, cultural networks, religion, music and the visual arts. It surveys existing work in the fieldand presents new research by medievalists from a range of disciplines. -- .

Shakespeare and Scotland is a collection of specially commissioned essays by major critics on both sides of the Atlantic. Together they explore, from a variety of critical perspectives, the playwright's place in Scotland, and the place of Scotland in his work. -- .

Explores what attracts women to far-right movements that appear to denigrate their rights -- .